Tag: environment
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Fox Sleep by W.S. Merwin.
It has come to our attention that you are simply NOT reading enough poetry. So now you have homework…. Find a quiet time. Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee. Perhaps some cake. Relax. Slowly read through this poem by WS Merwin. It is long…..but stay with it. You have not read stuff like […]
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Fitzroy Falls.
What’s the big deal?Points my niece.Waterfalls all look the same. Photo taken during our recent trip to Fitzroy Falls, located on Yuin country in the northern section of Morton National Park (///harder.swimsuits.moonlight).
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Bus stop.
Hidden handsGift a sprayOf sun. These concrete cylindrical bus shelters with their striking orange fibreglass window frames and matching seats were designed and built around Canberra from the mid-seventies. Despite their impracticalities and moth-to-flame attraction for vandals and graffiti artists (the Lexan windows were particularly vulnerable to being melted with cigarette lighters and are mostly […]
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Pigeon English
without a thoughtthe bird and Ireturn home. I was sitting outside reading, when there was a sudden dramatic kerfuffle in a nearby bush. Out popped a tiny baby Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes).Followed closely by a large black currawong locked-on for the kill. Now, despite them being a native bird to Australia, I am not a […]